Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, as every one knows, is one of the most conversationally glittering that Wilde wrote. The genre is well described in a book* just published which purports to contain spirit messages direct from the author: "My plays were scarcely drama. They were more the weaving of character into a pattern; and this, with the use of language which I chose in each instance, to illustrate the surface of the human being. I did not propose to go deeply into the heart, as it is called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author...
...public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated. For in a time of mental, moral and physical pattern and similarity he stood for originality and uniqueness. That he was endowed thus is true--but that he maintained his endowment is equally true. No college, unfortunately, dared give him an honorary degree. It remains for some capable writer to give him immortality. Yet perhaps he has that already. Somebody...
UNDERGRADUATE authors seem to have a flair for the shallow and the flippant. Ever since, F. Scott Fitzgerald we have had a series of sophomoric novel writers who spill a lot of ink, twist. Their words into a cross-word puzzle pattern, and sell their products under the name of literature to the thousands who affect. Sophistication because they lack understanding...
...harassed by economic burdens, however, the danger of a coup d'etat is always present. These rumors should remind the Entente of the peril of keeping their former foe dismantled. For howevermuch a recuperated Germany might be a menace, a Germany modelled on the virulently national Fascist pattern would be even more formidable...
Nirvana. John Howard Lawson was the author of Processional, perhaps the most violently discussed production of the Theatre Guild last season. His new one was therefore the more anticipated and the more discredited when it failed to measure up. It holds to the puzzling pattern of expressionism, and does not boast a plot. The general woes of this current world are chaotically included, with a little suicide and much sex. Mr. Lawson is evidently troubled with the way things are going. Perhaps he is disturbed because it has not been given to him (or anyone) to understand. Spectators...